June 22 Camping Trip First of Three

Totals:  195 miles and 5 hours travel to find camp site

Altitude at highest  11,669 Ft

Altitude at Camp site  10,900 Ft

Arrival Temperature 59 Degrees
Midnight Temperatue 52 Degrees
Departure Temperature (4.30 am) 45 Degrees

June 17th

We went for a walk (mommy),  run ( Sadie), ride (daddy, meghan and becca) last night in the nature preserve behind our house.  It was fun. 

  We saw a lot of cactus with flowers.  Cactus will poke your fingers.

June 13th

Bunnies are out in full force.  This baby was in our yard and let us get very close.

 Meghan did some research on bunnies:

Bunnies are the mammals that probably hate to be chased by dogs.  They are also called rabbits or hares.  They are found all over the world.  They are very small mammals.  The dad is called a buck.  The mom is a doe.  The kids are called kits.  They live in small holes called burrows.  A group of burrows is called a warren.  They live in meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts, and wetlands (editor note: and our yard.)  .  They are most active at dawn and dusk.  They live from 9 to 12 years.  They love to eat carrots and lettuce (editor note: this is from our own experiments in the yard.)  They will eat your garden (editor note: also from our own experiments in the yard.)  They are sometimes menaces and not at the same time.

June 9th

Meghan had Daddy Daughter night with a wonderful Celtic Woman concert at Red Rocks Ampitheater. Mommy decided a couple of months ago that she did not want to go but was extremely jealous by the time the concert came. Mommy even tried to rock paper scissors for it. It was a no go...

Becca and Mommy went for icecream  instead.

Watch Out Snake on the Road!

Becca: I hope you see one of these snakes. They are awesome. Snakes have to get warm. They slither back to their home. They do not want cars to run over them. This one made it safely across. He climbed up over the curb and into the grass.

 

 

Meghan: Yesterday we saw a snake. We wondered what kind it was. I took the time to look up snakes of Colorado and saw one that looked exactly like it. I found out the picture on the Internet was a bull snake. I think it was a bull snake because the top of it was tan with black polka dots. The tail was tan with black stripes. Next time you see a snake somewhere maybe you can do what I did.

 

Editor's note: Bull snakes are non venomous.   They eat rodents.  Their defense mechanism is to look like a rattlesnake.